The 2025 breeding duck index was the 33rd highest on record and exceeded the long-term (1948-2024) average by 7%, according to Mike Szymanski, Department migratory game bird supervisor.

BISMARCK, N.D. — The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 75th annual spring breeding duck survey conducted in May showed an index of nearly 3.4 million birds, up 16% from last year.

Grassland Bird Species to Know When you think of the historic Great Plains, you probably imagine vast herds of bison grazing ...

These landscape changes across grassland regions like those in North Dakota affect local wildlife ... deserts for these particular species of birds,” Post van der Burg said.

Many species have settled into the nesting season ... woodland edges and river corridors of North Dakota, Minnesota and beyond. The lazuli bunting is incredibly similar to the indigo bunting ...

In 1917, he published the names of 250 species he’d encountered in a book called “A List of North Dakota Birds in the Big Coulee, Turtle Mountains and Devils Lake Region.” Judd’s nephew ...

Gov. Kelly Armstrong has proclaimed June 16-22, 2025, as Pollinator Week in North Dakota. North Dakota is home to many ...

the heavy weight of evidence points towards a worsening situation for North American birds.” There is no one single reason for this new silent spring. For many grassland species, farms are ...

This unique wetland-grassland ecosystem which encompasses parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota ... That includes 112 of what the report called “Tipping Point” species, which means birds that ...